54- Account of the Great Hurricane o/* 1804. 



I have often seen some of the fruit-trees, above-men'- 

 tioned, put forth a few blossoms late in autumn, but 

 do not recollect to have seen fruit from them; where- 

 as, in six or seven weeks after the storm, I gathered 

 from mulberry-trees at my farm, three miles from 

 town, ripe fruit, and the berries continued to ripen till 

 the beginning of December, at which time I saw the 

 common wild black cherry-trees, with fruit turning 

 black on them. Four or five pears were set on one of 

 my trees, and grew to the size of pigeons' eggs; and 

 I have gathered some beautifully coloured apples, 

 some as large, and larger, than two-ounce grape-shot, 

 but without much flavour. I have learnt, from some 

 very old persons, that, after the great hurricane of 

 1752, apples, in the like state, were shown as curiosi- 

 ties, about Christmas. It is to be remarked, however, 

 that we have had very little severe weather, till within 

 the last week. Would it be worthy a trial, to deprive 

 the fruit-trees, or some of their branches, entirely of 

 leaves, about the beginning of September, or earlier, 

 to observe whether the like phenomena would follow ? 



Charleston, December 18/-6, 

 1804. 



As a valuable supplement to the preceding paper, 

 it may not be amiss to give, in this place, Bernard 

 Romans's observations on the great hurricane of ^772, 



